Ventured into Canterbury town centre to see the Aphra Behn exhibition The Beaney featuring some of her spy letters & a maquette of the sculpture to be unveiled in February 📜🎭

The #AphraConference is in full swing! Had to dash off, but at least I spent a day at the AphraBehnConference2024 - saw some old friends & made some new ones 🙌

A visit to sissinghurst after talking about vita sackville-west, Virginia Woolf and Montague summers at the aphra Behn conference

And that’s a wrap from me! Heading home after an incredible few days AphraBehnConference2024 brimming with new ideas, revived energy, & an Aphra Behn pendant (that pairs perfectly with Vulgar History Podcast’s Mazarinettes t-shirt). Until next time ✨💫

Excellent conference dinner last night - only slight raucous 😂 #AphraConference

Excellent panel yesterday on beauty and VD with Dr Katie Aske, Hannah Straw, and Keele English and Creative Writing’s Ceri Fowler 💄🍆 #AphraConference

Charlotte Cornell’s plenary on Behn’s Kentish Beginnings begins! #fullhouse #AphraConference

#AphraConference fascinating plenary from Charlotte Cornell 🌹✍️ "Rooting Aphra: Behn's Kentish Beginnings".

What an end to our wonderful conference. We had director loveday Ingram along with actors Alexandra Gilbreath and Samuel Collings come to discuss The RSC 2016 The Rover by Aphra Behn with readings of some epic scenes.

A very special visit today by #aphraconference delegates and some guest Cantaburians to see Aphra Behn’s grave in Westminster Abbey - we left a stunning wreath and a spare £ coin, so she doesn’t have to worry about those debts again.

Beautiful wreath laying ceremony for Aphra Behn today at Westminster Abbey. What a fantastic way to end #AphraConference! 💐🌸🌻

Discovered in an exhibit about Aphra Behn, the first woman in England to earn a living from her pen! This particular piece of jewellery was owned in the 1680s by...a canon of Canterbury Cathedral! Don't let anyone tell you that everyone in the past was a prude...

Some random photos from visiting the Aphra Behn exhibition at The Beaney in Canterbury last week. I'll admit I know little about her, but I want to learn more and I'm always interested to see more on Kent and the period too. (1)

Rare Aphra Behn novel found on home bookshelf bbc.in/4cUzTmQ

#ArtMystery Can the missing portrait for found? Please SHARE

💋 The Politics of Pleasure: Scandal, Society, and the Stage under King Charles II 🎟️ Book your free tickets for the talk this Saturday tinyurl.com/wa8pdsjy ℹ️ Suggestive themes 📍 The Beaney, 18 High Street #Canterbury #HistoryTalk #History #AphraBehn

further follow recommendations for art and history lovers Andrea Zuvich Sarah-Louise Young AphraBehnConference2024 Sarah Gristwood Dr Elizabeth Norton Hugh Lane Gallery National Museums Scotland Owen Emmerson Anna Biller Laurell K. Hamilton Canadian Cemetery History Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS)

Can any Aphra scholars out there help?

**PETITION** SAVE ENGLISH LITERATURE AT CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY I’ve taught English in Canterbury for 20 years. Now, as Cabinet Member for Culture & Heritage, seeing CCCU deciding to close their English degree is I believe, short sighted tinyurl.com/4n5yyfyt

The statue of the first professional woman writer, Aphra Behn, is being installed this morning in #Canterbury. The statue is being unveiled by a VVIP on Tuesday morning at 11:30am outside The Beaney